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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

The Investment Readiness Level (IRL) The collective wisdom of venture investors (including angel investors, and venture capitalists) over the past decades has been mostly subjective. We propose we can do the same for new ventures – provide a simple and visual way to share a common understanding of startup readiness status.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. So that will be another enabler for a lot more of the Bring Your Own Device stuff.